Where are the passhash9 algorithm from?

Question

I am using the Botan library which contains an algorithm named Passhash9.

It is a Password Hashing. Now, I want to know where it is from.

who can give me some papers or links about it?

Passhash9: https://botan.randombit.net/doxygen/dir_2f2a81ce70eadda327392ced4f630ceb.html

Answer 1

Proverbially too late to answer. I had the same question too until I looked into the source code. I don't know why they named it that way. But apparently passhash9 is PBKDF2 (source).